Post by heatherly on Dec 14, 2015 20:14:13 GMT -5
"Peel Plateau Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories looks a lot different now than it did a week ago thanks to a dramatic -- yet expected -- drainage event.
Canada's Northwest Territories Geological Survey reports that the small, isolated body of water drained over the edge of a cliff earlier this month. The permafrost that originally supported the lakebed gradually thawed, spurring an event known as a thaw slump (essentially a cold-climate landslide) when the cliff supporting the lakebed gave way."
Read more:
www.discovery.com/dscovrd/nature/canadian-lake-falls-off-cliff/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel&sf16986457=1
There is also a video.
Canada's Northwest Territories Geological Survey reports that the small, isolated body of water drained over the edge of a cliff earlier this month. The permafrost that originally supported the lakebed gradually thawed, spurring an event known as a thaw slump (essentially a cold-climate landslide) when the cliff supporting the lakebed gave way."
Read more:
www.discovery.com/dscovrd/nature/canadian-lake-falls-off-cliff/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel&sf16986457=1
There is also a video.
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creaking floors, you make me laugh,